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Table 1 Summary of prior specifications

From: Integrating expert opinions with clinical trial data to analyse low-powered subgroup analyses: a Bayesian analysis of the VeRDiCT trial

Prior specifications	Mean parameter	Variance parameters
Prior specifications		Mean effect	Interaction effect
Clinical	m	V^a	V^a
Sceptical	0	V^a	V^a
Interaction	m	V*^b	V*^a
Interaction-variance	0	V*^b	V*^a
Vague	0	LI^b	LI^b

^aInformative using expert opinions ^bUninformative

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